URGENT MESSAGE FOR MORMON GAY YOUTH
(The text of the post was originally a post on Carol Lynn Pearson’s Facebook page on July 23, 2015.) I have been made aware of three new suicides within the last ten days–all of these in Utah, two young men and one young woman, all three known to be gay...
Love in Word and Deed
Love in Word and Deed By Scott H. NOTE: This essay originally appeared on the blog, No More Strangers. Click here to read Scott’s original post. By the late 1960s, the position of the LDS church towards its black members was becoming increasingly untenable. ...
Homeless Youth in Utah
I am often asked if there is any way to help homeless youth. “Yes, please,” I usually say, “they need clean socks, new underwear. When it is cold, they need handwarmers. They also need sleeping bags, blankets, and if you have one, a wooden pallet so they don’t...
Defending Proposition 8—It’s time to admit the reasons
Note: This first appeared as an editorial on September 7, 2010 in BYU’s The Daily Universe. It was taken off the website the same day it was printed, in the early afternoon. Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the recent United States District Court case that overturned...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
“Cogito!” (“I think!”) follows the intellectual adventures of a recovering academic outside the walls of academia.
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